emit light

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They are especially valuable because they emit light in the second near infrared region, which can travel deep into biological tissue.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

In privacy mode, the device dims those wide pixels, while the narrow pixels emit light only at your face.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

AGNs emit light across the electromagnetic spectrum and can drive strong jets and winds into their surroundings.

From Science Daily • Dec. 9, 2025

Many objects in space, including distant galaxies and planets, emit light on the electromagnetic spectrum.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

Picture the fate of the world when the sun has become a dull red-hot ball, or even when it has cooled so far that it would no longer emit light to us.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur